Innovation Minister François-Phillipe Champagne made the announcement late Tuesday, vowing to bring in new national-security guidelines to better protect cutting-edge research from ending up in the hands of China
The federal government has banned all research funding with Chinese military and state security institutions and urged the provinces and universities to adopt similar guidelines.
Mr. Champagne vowed to bring in new national-security guidelines to better protect cutting-edge science and technology from ending up in the hands of China, in response to an investigation by The Globe and Mail showing extensive collaborating by Canadian universities with Chinese military scientists.on January 30 that the joint projects with China’s National University of Defence Technology included research on topics such as quantum cryptography, photonics and space science.
He added: “Ministers have also written to Universities Canada and the U15 Group of Canadian Research Universities urging them to follow similar guidelines for all their research partnerships, and more particularly those partnerships involving sensitive research areas.”
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